Ripple has positioned itself to be an intermediary between the various international firms that exist in their own fiefdoms and it has developed a purpose that will allow it to coexist with the sword of Damocles that hovers over the cryptocurrency space – those central bank issued digital assets that threaten to throw the lesser
There’s an unmentionable barrier to mainstream XRP adoption that I see infrequently discussed in cryptocurrency circles. It is the complexity of storing these tokens securely in a self-custodial manner. The frequently repeated jingle “not your keys, not your crypto” is so often hurled in the direction of someone who has lost funds when a popular
The Outer Worlds is a strange game to categorize. It plays like a generic first-person shooter, but there’s also the skeleton of a role-playing game buried deep inside. It has some of the typical stat rolls you would expect from an Obsidian game – skills like charisma or intimidation can be used to influence characters,
In the past few weeks, Ripple has put considerable effort into bolstering its global regulatory team with the explicit intent to help educate policymakers on the crypto space as a whole. Ripple recently expanded its global regulatory team with the establishment of the first dedicated GR office in Washington D.C. by any major blockchain company.
On Oct.25, 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping released a statement that outlined a positive attitude towards blockchain adoption and development. Some analysts credited this statement with the recent spike in the price of BTC. Others believe there was a different primary cause. Positive sentiment from China wouldn’t hurt the price, but whether it is the
There are so few pleasant surprises in life, and Disco Elysium is one of them. It reminds me of old role-playing games like Planescape Torment and Baldur’s Gate — strong narrative-driven games that are rarely released by big development studios today. Since the slow digestion of Bioware by Electronic Arts, I haven’t had game scratch
In the opening salvos of the Second World War, Allied powers implemented a naval blockade of Nazi Germany to choke off the flow of raw materials crucial to the Nazi war effort. German U-Boats attacked allied merchant ships and cargo haulers, most famously sinking the civilian liner the SS Athenia hours after a formal declaration
It is always interesting to me when something idealistic mutates and becomes the very problem it strove to fix – like in 1953, when the Soviet Union, the world’s foremost communist state, put down a worker’s revolt in East Germany and did so again in Hungary in 1956. Workers of the world unite, the Marxists
*On Oct. 16, 2019, the developers of Gods Unchained published a blog that outlines upcoming improvements to their card minting process. The information contained below about network transaction costs will no longer be accurate once those changes are implemented.* Gods Unchained is a collectible card game (CCG) that gives players the option to store their
There exists a duality in the attitudes of some of the families of refugees in Canada that cuts between gratitude and uneasiness. I call it uneasiness because I’m not sure how else to describe it. The gratitude comes from a host country granting a refugee sanctuary during a time when their lives are in peril.
